Did Jesus have a favorite disciple? One he loved more than the rest? In the Bible John has been described as “the disciple whom Jesus loved” and quite frankly, that’s bothered me over the years. Doesn’t Jesus love us all equally? Aren’t we supposed to love our neighbor as much as we love ourselves? Showing…
“’And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.’ So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to its kind. And God saw it…
“But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places to pray” (Luke 5:16). The sun had fallen and my GPS decided to navigate my car over a mountain. After flying into Greenville, South Carolina, I was driving a rental car to Ringgold, Georgia to comfort a friend who lost her son. Exhausted, I was on the last…
Our guest blogger today is pastor, Sherrill Kennedy Johnston. Sherrill received a calling to mission at age 12 during an evening service at her home church. She has passionately devoted her life and ministry to this calling. She served as a United Methodist pastor and 10 years as the International Director of “Servants In Faith &…
Angry. Hurt. Someone close to me engaged in repeated behavior that I found offensive. Words of consternation churned in my mind but something held me back from saying them. I obsessed about it in the afternoon. I replayed the scenarios as I went to bed. I wasn’t sure I could drift off to sleep. Have…